'Planning Your Legacy' giving program -- 6-8 p.m. Dec. 4. Learn about planned giving, both current and deferred. What are the tax advantages of leaving a gift to a nonprofit? For cancer patients, their families and friends. Cancer Support Community, 3276 McNutt Ave., Walnut Creek. Free. Reservations: 925-933-0107.

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Beacon Lighting on Mount Diablo Honors Pearl Harbor Day -- 3:45 p.m. Dec. 7. Save Mount Diablo and the Sons & Daughters Of Pearl Harbor Survivors Association light The Eye of Diablo, the rotating summit beacon atop Mount Diablo, to memorialize Pearl Harbor Day. Parking is available in the Lower Summit Parking Lot and can be accessed from either entrance to the Park. A shuttle service is provided by a volunteer from the lower lot to the Summit for those who would like a ride for the last quarter mile. The ceremony is held in the Summit Visitors' Building. $10 per car park entrance fee to Mount Diablo State Park. 925-947-3535.

Diablo Vista Chorus Show -- 2:30 p.m. Dec. 1. Under the direction of Randy Meyer, "Sing-a-Bration — The World Tour!" will be a musical journey of epic proportions as the women's a cappella chorus circles the globe in search of perfect harmony. Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek. $17.75. diablovistachorus.net.

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